At 700,000 square feet, the 11-story $235-million
BJC Institute of Health at Washington University will be the largest single medical research facility ever to be built in the State of Missouri. It will be located at the Washington University in St. Louis Medical Center. BJC Institute of Health at Washington University in St. Louis will house laboratories and support facilities for an entity known as BioMed 21.
Construction began in the summer of 2007 on the new building, which will house not only BioMed 21 laboratories and support facilities but also two academic departments of the School of Medicine as well as some support operations of Barnes-Jewish Hospital. The University will be adding 240,000 square feet of research space, and the estimated total cost of the building will be $235 million. As a hub for BioMed 21, the building will provide space for five newly created Interdisciplinary Research Centers (IRCs).
The BioMed 21 IRCs will occupy two floors and other School of Medicine facilities will occupy another three floors of the planned 11 floors in the nearly 700,000 square-foot BJC Institute of Health at Washington University. The new Institute is at the southwest corner of Euclid Avenue and Children's Place, directly across the street from the McDonnell Pediatric Research Building, a joint project of the School of Medicine and St. Louis Children's Hospital.